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Thursday, December 5, 2013

After a couple massive Peyton Manning-fueled Sunday Night Footballs, NBC took a major week-to-week dive this week with a stinky Giants/Redskins matchup. Despite this, ABC saw no rally as Once Upon a Time came back from a week off, and they were a bit lower than normal from 9-11 with Hallmark movie Christmas in Conway, down huge from the December Hallmark movie's 1.8 a year ago.

Fox sat out its animated anchors but aired the bottom-of-hour shows in originals; Bob's Burgers and American Dad! matched or edged their repeat lead-ins.

CBS debuted its new-look The Mentalist with a season high; that's definitely something given it started at 10:50.

And AMC wrapped up the fall season of The Walking Dead (6.1) at just a single tenth behind Sunday Night Football. TWD's explosive year-to-year growth was somewhat tempered after some big post-premiere drops, but this episode was still 13% ahead of last fall's finale.

FULL TABLE:

Info

Show

Timeslot

True

A18-49

Skew

Last

LeLa

Rank

y2y

TLa

Ty2y

America's Funniest Home Videos

1.2

23%

-14%

-0.2

n/a

6/8

-25%

-14%

-27%

1.1

Once Upon a Time

1.9

36%

+0%

+0.0

-0.2

8/9

-39%

-56%

-39%

1.9

Movie: Christmas in Conway

1.1

22%

n/a

-76%

-41%

1.2

ABC:

-65%

-38%

NFL Overrun

8.6

39%

-4%

-0.4

n/a

10/13

+10%

+473%

-3%

7.5

60 Minutes

3.9

27%

+144%

+2.3

n/a

1/10

+18%

+136%

+11%

2.3

The Amazing Race

2.1

26%

+31%

+0.5

+2.3

3/10

-22%

+45%

-21%

1.7

The Good Wife

1.6

19%

+23%

+0.3

+0.5

2/10

-11%

+14%

-9%

1.7

The Mentalist

1.7

23%

+6%

+0.1

+0.3

1/9

n/a

+6%

+31%

1.7

CBS:

+111%

-7%

Football Night in America p2

1.2

44%

-33%

-0.6

n/a

11/13

-45%

-33%

-45%

1.2

Football Night in America p3

3.2

45%

+28%

+0.7

n/a

13/14

-16%

-27%

-16%

3.0

Sunday Night Football

6.2

44%

-10%

-0.7

+0.7

15/15

-16%

-34%

-16%

5.8

NBC:

-42%

-27%

Bob's Burgers (R)

0.5

45%

-95%

-38%

0.5

American Dad! (R)

1.0

54%

-82%

-38%

1.2

The Simpsons (R)

1.5

54%

-50%

-25%

1.5

Bob's Burgers

1.6

60%

-16%

-0.3

-1.5

5/6

-11%

-16%

-11%

1.6

Family Guy (R)

1.7

62%

-23%

-15%

1.6

American Dad!

1.7

62%

-11%

-0.2

-0.5

5/6

-19%

-11%

-19%

1.7

Fox:

-67%

-22%

Big4:

-40%

-23%

KEY (click to expand)

A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.Skew - Percentage of adults 18-49 within the show's total viewership.Last - A18-49 difference (percent and numerical) from the show's previous episode.LeLa - A18-49 difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes so far this season.y2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the show's rating a year ago.TLa - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.Ty2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.True - A metric that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in.